OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Cremation Society Ltd

ActiveCharity number SC015310
Registered30 July 1954
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC015310
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
9
Postcode
G2 1RW

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To promote and carry out inexpensive and at the same time, sanitary methods of disposal of the dead, which shall best tend to render the remains innocuous and shall minimise pollution of the environment, including cremation and, if found by research and testing to be efficacious in these respects, resomation and any other method of disposal of the dead which is inexpensive, sanitary, advances public health and minimises pollution of the environment. and 2.2 To publish information on all matters tending to promote and explain cremation, resomation and any other method (include future methods) of disposal of the dead as described in article 2.1 above in the form of publications, lectures and other methods of communication in a manner to further promote inexpensive sanitary and pollution minimised methods of disposal of the dead The services provided and the charges for the services are intended to allay funeral poverty.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

2.1 To promote and carry out inexpensive and at the same time sanitary methods of disposal of the dead, which shall best tend to render the remains innocuous and shall minimise pollution of the environment, including cremation and, if found by research and testing to be efficacious in these respects, resomation and any other method of disposal of the dead which is inexpensive, sanitary, advances public health and minimises pollution of the environment. and 2.2 To publish information on all matters tending to promote and explain cremation, resomation and any other method (including future methods) of disposal of the dead as described in article 2.1 above in the form of publications, lectures and other methods of communication in a manner to further promote inexpensive sanitary and pollution minimised methods of disposal of the dead.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£1,227,806£1,159,986924 September 2025
31 December 2023£1,252,795£1,139,719917 September 2024
31 December 2022£1,159,664£1,116,034921 September 2023
31 December 2021£1,228,040£1,112,106921 September 2022
31 December 2020£1,204,878£1,064,236922 September 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
The Scottish Cremation Society, 4th Floor The Reel House, 7 West Regent Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Website supplied to OSCR
glasgowcrematorium.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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